Nature and stability of individual differences in early lexical development of Italian-speaking children  

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Camaioni, Luigia ; Longobardi, Emiddia

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: First Language (Full Text) vol. 15 no. 44 (1995), page 203-218.
Fulltext: First Language 1995 15. 203-218.pdf (726.67KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/FIL/15 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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The present study aims to identify individual differences in both rate and style of language acquisition in a sample of 15 Italian speaking children, observed at 16 and 20 months of age. The nature as well as the stability of such differences over time were investigated, and the usefulness of different criteria for defining stylistic tendencies was evaluated. Fifteen middle-high class children and their mothers participated in the longitudinal study. The mother-child dyads were videotaped at home when the children were 16 and 20 month old. In addition to the observational data, at the same age points the mothers were administered a structured questionnaire designed to evaluate the level of the child's linguistic development. The results are in general consistent with previous findings showing a considerable variation in both rate and type of early vocabulary development. However, the finding that only a limited proportion of the Italian subjects used a referential/expressive style was largely unexpected. This suggests that the referential/ expressive distinction in early lexicon may be a characterization of stylistic variation more appropriate for English-speaking children than for children learning other languages.

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